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Recent Examples of vicarage
Neighbors fear ‘screaming, shouting, and splashing’ The Sun first reported that Horner and Halliwell had sent off planning permission last year to build a 40ft x 16ft swimming pool at their vicarage house residence, which Horner bought for £2 million ($2.5 million) in 2006.
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
After a day in the saddle, riders will recharge at hotels with deep local roots, such as The Painswick, a converted 18th-century Palladian house that was once the town's vicarage.
—Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
As the anger beyond the vicarage rises, the tenor of the debates across the kitchen table grow more urgent.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 6 July 2022
Anyone in 1963 who still wanted fiction set in the vicarage, publishers thought, could go back to Jane Austen, the writer to whom Pym has ceaselessly, and often wrongly, been compared.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
In the vicarage garden, the bodies in the charnel mound have gone back to sleep.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
Agatha Christie’s fictional hamlet – the home of amateur sleuth Jane Marple – has seen its unfair share of murders, including at the vicarage.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
After a day in the saddle, riders will recharge at hotels with deep local roots, such as The Painswick, a converted 18th-century Palladian house that was once the town's vicarage.
—Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2022
Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
As the anger beyond the vicarage rises, the tenor of the debates across the kitchen table grow more urgent.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 6 July 2022
Anyone in 1963 who still wanted fiction set in the vicarage, publishers thought, could go back to Jane Austen, the writer to whom Pym has ceaselessly, and often wrongly, been compared.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
In the vicarage garden, the bodies in the charnel mound have gone back to sleep.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
Agatha Christie’s fictional hamlet – the home of amateur sleuth Jane Marple – has seen its unfair share of murders, including at the vicarage.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicarage
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Deputies from the Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office responded to the shooting at the church’s rectory at 411 Pioneer Street about 2:55 p.m. Thursday and discovered Carasala outside with gunshot wounds, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Thursday.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
4 Apr. 2025
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Cook County tax records show the archdiocese sold the St. Mary of the Assumption property — which encompasses the church itself, the school, convent, rectory and annex — to a company called Eugene Benjamin Properties in 2019 for just under $250,000.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
10 May 2025
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In July 2020, WED Inc. filed a bankruptcy petition, which claimed its assets included 11 churches, a parsonage and Powell’s residence, prosecutors said.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2025
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When Johnson retired, Seay-Hubbard purchased the home and converted it into a parsonage of the church until clergy no longer wanted to reside there.—
Jennifer Lindahl,
The Tennessean,
10 Nov. 2024
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Improbably located right across the street from their humble abode is the upscale manse inhabited by the Falconers, a rich couple (Katherine Waterson, Chris Klein) who’ve raised only child Tiffany (Fina Strazza) to be a particularly stinging WASP.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
23 May 2025
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Bonus points: The hotel looks directly out to Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island manse, another level of cool that adds to the day.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
11 May 2025
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Choose from accommodations within the historic Founder's Cove or more modern rooms, suites, and residences at Eclipse by Half Moon.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
3 June 2025
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The couple first purchased the property in 2021 after selling their previous residence, according to Realtor.com.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
3 June 2025
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Pico Iyer makes time for retreats at a Benedictine hermitage in California.—
Danny Heitman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Jan. 2025
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When Iyer’s wife accompanies him on a visit to the hermitage, the monks greet her warmly.—
Danny Heitman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Jan. 2025
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Typically, when checking for lead in a home's tap water, municipalities (or contractors) will obtain water samples from the dwelling, then analyze those samples in a lab.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
30 May 2025
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Homeowners insurance in Illinois costs an average of $2,149 a year for $300,000 worth of dwelling coverage, fairly close to the national average of $2,329.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
24 May 2025
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New York City Penthouse Jackman and Furness purchased their impressive downtown Manhattan abode for about $21 million in 2022, just a year before announcing their split, according to Architectural Digest.—
Mackenzie Schmidt,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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The low-slung, single-story abode, perched on a high promontory just below the Stone Canyon Reservoir, takes an unassuming stance with only a carport, half a dozen wood panels, and large expanses of eight-foot-tall opaque glass fencing visible from the street.—
Mark David,
Robb Report,
30 May 2025
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Agathe is either inside her beautiful bookshop, her beautiful, sunny Parisian domicile or roaming a beautiful house and grounds for knocking out a novel while your heart figures things out.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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This double-decker domicile packs in upwards of 380 square feet of indoor space across its two levels.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Vicarage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicarage. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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